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Some stories disappear from our minds the moment we finish reading them. Others stay with us for years. We may forget the exact words, the n…

Before stories were printed in books, they were spoken. People told them to their children, friends and neighbours. They told stories while…

In India, festivals are rarely just about a date on the calendar. They come with food, family, music, decorations, traditions and, most impo…

Not every poem has to be serious. Some poems make you think. Some make you cry.. Some simply make you laugh at a person who probably should…

Books are supposed to open doors. But sometimes, people try to close those doors. Throughout history, books have been banned, censored, rest…

Two men are waiting. They do not know exactly when he will come, where he is, or even what he really looks like. Still, they wait. They talk…

Paint my parchment paper pink, in the tincture of tenderness, the ineffable blush of intimacies that language perpetually fails to anatomise…

I fell in love once with a bird who found my balcony every time whenever the rain turned the garden green. He would sit quietly, wet-winged…

George Eliot’s Middlemarch is a novel filled with people who want more from life than life seems willing to give them. They dream of meaning…

When most of us think about poetry, we automatically think about rhyme. Moon and June. Light and night. But poetry does not actually need rh…

There is something almost uncomfortable about reading Kamala Das for the first time. She writes about love without making it beautiful just…

We live in a time when almost everything is explained to us. A film tells us exactly what happened. A social media post tells us what to thi…

Some stories are written simply to entertain us. Others are written because forgetting them would mean forgetting a part of history. African…

Imagine falling in love with someone in a beautiful old mansion. Sounds romantic, right? Now imagine that the mansion has locked rooms, stra…

There is something about Pride and Prejudice that refuses to grow old. Jane Austen published the novel more than 200 years ago, yet Elizabet…

उसकी हँसी सबसे अलग थी, पर वो बेवफ़ा थी... वो मेरी सर्द रातों की धूप थी, मैं उसका मौसम समझ बैठा। उसकी बातें फूल थीं, पर काँटे किसी और के लिए…

Some love stories make us believe in happily ever after. Wuthering Heights makes us question what love actually means. Emily Brontë’s novel…

What does a person really need to create something? A good idea, perhaps. Talent, definitely. But Virginia Woolf would probably add somethin…

There are some writers we read because they make us feel good. Then there are writers we read because they understand the things we usually…

Charles Dickens is one of the most recognisable names in English literature. His novels introduced readers to memorable characters, difficul…

The first time I came across the term avant-garde literature, it sounded complicated and almost intimidating. The phrase itself comes from F…

William Shakespeare is often introduced to us as one of the greatest writers in English literature. At first, his works can feel difficult b…

There are some songs that we do not simply hear we remember them. A particular melody can take us back to a school corridor, a long journey,…

Every writer knows the frustration of staring at a blank page and having absolutely no idea what to write. The thoughts may be somewhere in…

A haiku is one of the shortest forms of poetry, but its simplicity can be surprisingly powerful. Traditionally associated with Japanese poet…

The People Who Made It Special

Do Not Fear the First Draft

The Beauty of Slowing Down

When the heart cannot explain itself, poetry knows how to listen.

We thought we were waiting for dinner. We were really waiting for home.